I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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